Courtney Szto & Sarah Gray Forgive me Father for I have Thinned: surveilling the bio-citizen through Twitter (2014) Qualitiative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, . Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2014.938245 Abstract The Biggest Loser (TBL) is a reality weight-loss television show that aims to address the notion of an ‘obesity epidemic’ by instructing viewers about …
Thomas Bolmain, Ni Foucault ni Lacan. De la Loi, entre éthique et finitude Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Vol. VI, no. 1, June 2014:198-240 Full PDF (in French) Abstract After highlighting Foucault’s ambivalent position with regards to psychoanalysis, this paper first shows that Foucault’s critical thought, insofar as it finds its condition …
Oleg Bernaz, Usages de Foucault entre la psychanalyse et le marxisme. Discours de la résistance et pratiques de l’intervention intellectuelle en société, Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Vol. VI, no. 1, June 2014: 241-265. Full PDF (in French) Abstract In this paper I analyze two distinct contemporary perspectives on the Foucauldian concept …
Plum, M. A ‘globalised’ curriculum – international comparative practices and the preschool child as a site of economic optimisation (2014) Discourse, . Article in Press. Abstract Globalisation is often referred to as being external to education – a state of affairs presenting the modern curriculum with numerous challenges. In this article, ‘globalisation’ is examined as …
Hope, A. Schoolchildren, governmentality and national e-safety policy discourse (2014) Discourse, . Article in Press. Abstract The introduction of widespread school Internet access in industrialised countries has been accompanied by the materialisation of what can be labelled as a national school e-safety agenda. Drawing upon Foucault’s notions of discourse and governmentality, this paper explores how …
Henrik Enroth, Governance: The art of governing after governmentality (2014) European Journal of Social Theory, 17 (1), pp. 60-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431013491818 Abstract As Michel Foucault and others have shown, from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, Western political discourse has perpetuated an art of governing aimed at societies and populations. This article argues that this modern …
Skålevåg, S.A. The irresponsible criminal in Norwegian medico-legal discourse (2014) International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 37 (1), pp. 82-90. Abstract This article discusses discourses on criminal responsibility in Norway in the 19th and 20th centuries, in light of Michel Foucault’s regimes of power and knowledge: the apparatuses of law, discipline and security. The passing …
Lia Bryant & Bridget Garnham The embodiment of women in wine: Gender inequality and gendered inscriptions of the working body in a corporate wine organization (2014) Gender, Work and Organization https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12045 Abstract This paper problematizes media representations that suggest women working in the traditionally patriarchal wine industry are no longer subject to structural constraints according …
Jennings, M. Breaking free to the limit: Playing with Foucault, Otto, and pentecostal experience (2014) Journal of Contemporary Religion, 29 (1), pp. 33-45. Abstract This article explores different phenomenological approaches to understanding one of the central elements of Pentecostal spirituality: the ecstatic experience of the divine (often referred to as the encounter of the divine). …
Matthew Chrulew, Pastoral counter-conducts: Religious resistance in Foucault’s genealogy of Christianity, Critical Research on Religion, April 2014 vol. 2 no. 1 55-65 https://doi.org/10.1177/205030321452 Abstract The internal resistance to religious forms of power is often at issue in Michel Foucault’s genealogy of Christianity. For this anti-clerical Nietzschean, religion is, like science, always a battle over bodies …
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